St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-02-21
WANT DIVISION.
Certain Citizens OF Srearns County
Seeking to Get the County Sliced.

Certain Citizens OF Ssearns County
Seeking to Get the County Sliced.
Special to the Globe.
SAUK CENTRE, Minn., Feb. 20.-A
large and enthusiastic meeting of surprised
and indignant citizens was held yesterday
afternoon at the board of trade rooms. oc-
casoned by reading in the Pioneer Press
series Of resolutions passed by a meeting
held at St. Cloud Friday. W. A. Gates,
president of the board of trade, was called to
preside. A committee which had been APP
pointed by the board to draft a bill to be
enacted by the legislature. establishing
municipal court here, reported that it met
Judge Collins and leading citizens Of st.
Cloud last week at st. Cloud; that
the representatives of ST.. Cloud
opposed the passage Of the mu
nicipal court bill, and proposed
bill authorizing two adjourned terms of
the district court at Sauk Centre to try such
cases as emanated from the west end of the
county, and promised not to oppose the
passage of bill allowing the voters of the
county to vote upon a division OF the
county; that a court bill approved by Judge
Collins and the county division bill as
agreed upon were introduced in the legis-
lature. Upon hearing this report and the
resolution OF Fridays meeting at st. Cloud,
many warm speeches were made and the
feeling was unanimous that st. Cloud had
acted in bad faith towards the west end of
the county, and the following resolutions
were adopted without dissenting vote:
Whereas, The western portion of Stearns
county is so far removed from St Cloud the
county scat of said county, that it is d hard
ship for its citizens to be compelled to travel
so far to attend court or upon county busi-
ness, aud is attended by an unjust outlay Of
time aud money, so great as at times to debar
the poor man from availing himself OF any
advantages to be gained thereby; and,
Whereas, request to vote upon the QueS-
tion of division is u right that should be ac-
corded the people of county so large as
StearnS; and,
Whereas, The county seat is so far remote
from vast and populous section of the
county as to infiict great burden upon the
citizens of that section; and,
Whereas, This portion Of Stearns county
is held to st. Cloud for revenue only; and,
Whereas, The bill for adjourned terms of
the district court, approved by the judge
thereof, is measure emiuently fair just and
equitable in that it relieves the west end of
| the county of many hardships and deprives
the eastern portion of none of its rights and
prerogativeS; therefore, be it
Resolved, That our senators and repre-
sentatives be respectfully asked to secure the
enactment us laws Of the bill granting to the
people of the county the right to vote upon
| the question of division OF the county, and
also the bill authorizing the holding Of ad-
journed terms of the district court at Sauk
Centre.
Resolved, That we ask all fair-minded
members of the legislature to assist our own
delegates in procuring the passage of the
bills asked for, as an act of justice to q peo-
| pie who have long borne an unjust and severe
| burden.
| Resolved, That we Indignantly condemn
| the action of St. Cloud in this matter as based
upon avarice and the tyrannous use of sup
| posed power.
Resolved. That the gratuitous statement
in the st. Cloud resolutions that large
majority of the Inhabitants of Stearns county
are opposed to such legislation savors as
much of truth as their opposition to the
| above bills does of Justice aud equity.